Runing Spark Unit Test on Windows 7

It's common situation in enterprises when developers are working on Windows platform. When you are working with Hadoop, it sounds as a f**ing shit, but this is a fact.

Recently, I switched in a favor of Spark instead of traditional MapReduce paradigm and was need to implement some kind of unit/integration testing... of course, it was need to work under Windows 7.

I've written very simple test: run ETL in-memory, without touching Hadoop at all (in future, I'd like to read input from local filesystem):

@Test
def testETL() = {
    val conf = new SparkConf()
    val sc = new SparkContext("local", "test", conf)
    try {
        val etl = new IxtoolsDailyAgg() // empty constructor

        val data = sc.parallelize(List("in1", "in2", "in3"))

        etl.etl(data) // rdd transformation, no access to SparkContext or Hadoop
        Assert.assertTrue(true)
    } finally {
        if(sc != null)
            sc.stop()
    }
}

Bum! I got exception:

java.io.IOException: Could not locate executable null\bin\winutils.exe in the Hadoop binaries.
 at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.getQualifiedBinPath(Shell.java:318)
 at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.getWinUtilsPath(Shell.java:333)
 at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.<clinit>(Shell.java:326)
 at org.apache.hadoop.util.StringUtils.<clinit>(StringUtils.java:76)
 at org.apache.hadoop.security.Groups.parseStaticMapping(Groups.java:93)
 at org.apache.hadoop.security.Groups.<init>(Groups.java:77)
 at org.apache.hadoop.security.Groups.getUserToGroupsMappingService(Groups.java:240)
 at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.initialize(UserGroupInformation.java:255)
 at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.setConfiguration(UserGroupInformation.java:283)
 at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkHadoopUtil.<init>(SparkHadoopUtil.scala:36)
 at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkHadoopUtil$.<init>(SparkHadoopUtil.scala:109)
 at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkHadoopUtil$.<clinit>(SparkHadoopUtil.scala)
 at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.<init>(SparkContext.scala:228)
 at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.<init>(SparkContext.scala:97)

What?

org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.(Shell.java:326)

I swear, I didn't use Hadoop in my code!
Unfortunately, Hadoop configuration is initialized together with SparkContext :( no way to omit it...
I was recommended to install HDP on Windows, but I hate this idea...

I tried the most stupid idea - provide winutils.exe... I hope, it's only the check of environment and Hadoop functionality won't be used if I don't touch it.
So, I downloaded winutils.exe from msdn (msdn still helpful even for hadooper), put it to created directory d:\winutil\bin and then add

System.setProperty("hadoop.home.dir", "d:\\winutil\\") 

at the beginning of my unit test